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Materials and the Global Environment: Waste Mining in the 21st Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Robert U. Ayres ,
John Holmberg  and
Björn Andersson

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Sustainability is supposed to be the watchword of the coming century. Kenneth Boulding characterized the economic system of the 19th century as a “cowboy economy,” meaning that resources were essentially not a limiting factor. In contrast, he noted that in the future we must prepare to live in a “spaceship economy,” adopting Barbara Ward's famous metaphor of “Spaceship Earth.” In a spaceship, all materials must be recycled (or discarded into space).

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Materials Challenges for the Next Century
Information
MRS Bulletin , Volume 26 , Issue 6: High Thermal Conductivity Materials , June 2001 , pp. 477 - 480
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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